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FILL IN THE BLANKS --ENGLISH SBI/IBPS CLERKS/PO --814



Directions (Q. 71-80): In the following passage, some of the words have been left out, each of which is indicated by a number: Find the suitable word from the options given against each number and till up the blanks with appropriate words to make the paragraph meaningfully complete.

Mango people may be forgiven more than a touch of schadenfreude after learning of the (71) of many of the 4000 VIPs (72) the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his 44 ministers at Rashtrapati Bhavan. After all, what they went (73) is what the aam aadmi (74) every day. The heat, dust, traffic jams, jostling queues, lack of (75) infrastructure - in this case, fans and water in view of the high afternoon temperature - and the interminable (76) that so beleaguered the (77) gathering are but (78) and parcel of the common person 's life. Indeed, had the audience been made up of NIPs (non-important people), there (79) have been no complaints at all (80) it would have been just another day.

71.     a) distress   b) pains      c) laziness   d) travails   e) suffering

72.     a) presenting        b) attending          c) accompanying  d) looking   e) waiting

73.     a) for                    b) to            c) in            d) out                   e) through

74.     a) weathers b) climates c) grapples  d) makes out        e) survives

75.     a) inherent b) secondary         c) basic       d) chief        e) central

76.     a) suffering b) stay                  c) wait                  d) interval   e) half

77.     a) select       b) topmost c) favoured d) prime      e) best

78.     a) bit           b) item        c) element   d) part                  e) share

79.     a) must       b) certainly c) should     d) ought      e) may

80.     a) whereas b) for                    c) now                  d) being       e) in that


71. d           72. b           73. e            74. a           75. c 

76. c            77. a           78. d           79. e            80. b

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